On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 02:49:53PM -0700, Larry Colen wrote: > > Problem 1) > A card may have several sessions from a day. Yesterday I shot some > flowers at the office, some farm machinery by the road and at a dance. > > I can create subdirectories, and move photos from the top level > directory into lower directories, but they still show up, so I can't > easily choose between what is left. In other words, I move photos out > of the top level directory, but they still show up in the top level > directory.
Only if you tell it to do that. There's an option to include or exclude files from subdirectories. > Problem 2) > > I've realized that having pix2009 is not right, under pix2009 I should > have 0901, 0902, 0903 with shots from January, Feb, March etc. Since I > name my files by date then subject 090401_flowers, 090328_birds etc > it's trivial to move the files into new subdirectories: > > mkdir p0901 > mv 0901* p0901 > mkdir p0902 > mv 0902* p0902 > > with a few minutes of work I could write a bash script to do > this. But, as I understand it, Lightroom will get confused because it > still thinks that those files are under pix2009 not pix2009/p0901 > pix2009/p0902 etc. Drag-and-drop from within Lightroom. Or if you are averse to doing that, tell Lightroom the new locations when it complains about missing files. You'll only have to pint it to each new directory once - it will find all the files you've moved there. > Problem 3) > Every so often my internal drive fills up, and I have to move the > directories over to an external drive, and I've got no idea how > lightroom will handle that if I go back to edit old files. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
